Consolidated critical interpretation (for example: the evidence of the structure, the role of the coating, the texture and the ideas of Semper, etc.) can help us to clarify the relationship between construction and architecture, that inevitably crosses the entire history of the buildings and remains, despite the refinement of our critical tools, one of the most complex to analyze. We can use as an incipit, with Auguste Perret, that «the language of the architect is the construction». An assumption which allows an investigation that relates to the connections (conflict, mutual distance, respect) between architectural type and structural parts.
The theoretical debate on the creative approach to construction as a way to the morphology counts several schools of thought. The purpose of this course is to analyze critically some of them using peculiar buildings, mostly built, as objects of an investigation. These will be tested, checking limits and real internal consistency when invested by the construction process.
We will do this work based on the diptych “rib-arch”, with which Carlos Martí Arís describes the distinction between theory and construction, that, once completed, maintains the necessary mark of his theoretical framework. Finally, with knowledge that it is only pursuing a shared goal: the creation of an artifact generated by a system of decisions that affect compositional, structural, typological choices, seen as steps in a single design process.